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TIL: 60,000 deaths can be attributed to CIA Operation Condor. Victims included dissidents and leftists, union and peasant leaders, priests and nuns, students and teachers, intellectuals and suspected guerillas [...] in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil.

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rNK51 TIL it was illegal to sell beef-on-the-bone in the UK between 1997 and 1999, in an attempt to limit the spread of mad cow disease
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